Green v. McCord
Decision Date | 10 June 1920 |
Docket Number | 5 Div. 734 |
Citation | 85 So. 750,204 Ala. 356 |
Parties | GREEN, Superintendent of Banks, v. McCORD. |
Court | Alabama Supreme Court |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Coosa County; S.L. Brewer, Judge.
Action by D.F. Green, as Superintendent of Banks, against Z.D McCord, on a promissory note. From rulings on the pleadings plaintiff took nonsuit with bill of exceptions, and appeals. Affirmed.
George A. Sorrell, of Alexander City, and Charles S. Bentley, of Bessemer, for appellant.
J.W Strother, of Dadeville, and John Darden, of Goodwater, for appellee.
Because of the ruling of the court sustaining demurrer to plaintiff's pleading, a nonsuit with bill of exceptions was taken. Paterson & Edey Lbr. Co. v. Bank of Mobile, 84 So. 721; Schillinger v. Wickersham, 75 So. 11; Berlin Mach. Works v. Ewart, 184 Ala 272, 279, 63 So. 567.
The plaintiff sought to avoid the rejoinder of full payment by the accommodation party (defendant) to the First National Bank of Birmingham, the only party who had relied upon defendant's accommodation note, as follows:
"That while the said defendant paid to the First National Bank of Birmingham, Ala., the said sum of $4,500, and thereby was subrogated to the right of said bank to all security held by it, that one item of security held by said bank was the note here sued on, which was and is a valid and binding obligation on the defendant to the Farmers' & Merchants' Bank for the sum of $5,000, that the defendant only paid to the First National Bank the sum of $4,500, and thereby the said Farmers' & Merchants' Bank became indebted to the defendant in the said sum of $4,500, and that at said time and as a part of said transaction and as due on the note here sued on the defendant was due the sum of $5,000 on the same, and plaintiff alleges that the debt so due by the defendant on said note operated to discharge and settle and satisfy the defendant in the...
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